Current Status of the System of Food Subsidies in Egypt

The subsidy of commodity A basic components of the social security net, which the government provided for limited categories of income, in line with the government role in easing the burden on low-income people, whereupon the government to provide basic commodities at discounted prices through the subsidy program, despite efforts by policy makers to reduce the incidence of poverty through a program of government subsidy and the provision of  basic needs For individuals of the major commodities, but this interest has led to the high cost of the invoice system of government subsidy, and turns out to study the system of current support is in breach of one of the most important objectives and pillars political and social state which is social justice in the distribution of subsidy to individuals in the community by showing poor management and distribution of nutritional support and disagreement and the appropriateness and suitability with the distribution of population on the one hand and the number and The poverty rate in the Governorates of the Republic of on the other hand.